Show may day will ship zinc advance in price of this metal will be a big thing for and several other tintic gintic properties rich silver lead ore the advance in the price of z ne coupled with the statement from the luy rs of this metal to the effect that ore carrying 24 per cent or bet ter will be acce ted a about the best ne is a that has been passed out to the of tintic gintic in s veral months during the year 1913 when zinc was bringing a very good figaire fig ire al though not as a much aa as it is worth at the present time the mines of tintic gintic led the state in the production of this metal but at that time only the higher grade ore was marketable and no v that there is a market for twenty four per cent ore there is 18 no reason why our mines cannot be de p ended upon for as large a tonnage aa as they produced over a year ago halt half a dozen minee mines among them being the may day lower mam main moth gemini east tintic gintic deve op ment and yankee have mm min d con can s demable zinc in recent years and while the best part of the zinc ore deposits hive no doubt been shipped there are reasons to believe that they can all ship a considerable quantity of ore that go than awen ty four per cent in addition to those already named is the r pidge valloy which accord ng to all reports has about the best zinc showing of any ot of the tint c mines it is said that this mine will be r re e 0 ened in the very near future and that s ecial attention will be given to the mm min ng of zinc bearing ores during the years 1913 and 1914 the may day mine shipped a total of 0 8 tons of zinc ore with the price of this metal between 5 and 6 per t undred pounds and as the spelter market became weaker the miners kept go ng after the higher grade ore until the supply was pretty well depleted A few weeks ago how ever a after ter t ape qua quotations t actions on zinc showed the metal etal to be worth more than 7 per er huri dred the officials of the company that it was time to get busy and consequently conse the old workings of the property were open to leas rs who ho car ed to prospect for zinc last week about twenty two men were at work on these blocks of ground and this number has since been increased it is perhaps safe to say that the mine u contains con taina ten thousand tons of zinc ore which under existing cond eions is a commercial product and all of these leasers will no doubt find their work profitable instead of search nig ing around for the small stringers ot of the higher grade ore they can commence mining the lower grade product and careful sorting will not be necessary to bring it up to 24 per cent the four carloads of lead silver ore which the may day company recently put on the market brought nearly thia this ore had been laying in the bins at the mine for se beveral eral months the first two cars brought about 2 2800 and the other cars cara which aich contained the best of the ore were worth a little over control gim gunnles TIes showing about 80 ounces sil oil ver and 50 per cent lead the which folli followed w ed the new ore body for some distance was thia this week connected with one of the main levels of the property and it ie is said that with n ft a very few days the mine will be in pos tion to send out a very nice tonnage of this h gh grade lead silver ore this ore is so rich that with lead and siller at r their present prices the company a treasury will be built up pretta ra idly |